The Christmas Truce
- Editore:
OBERON BOOKS
- Collana:
- Oberon Modern Plays
- EAN:
9781783192144
- ISBN:
1783192143
- Pagine:
- 120
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Christmas Truce
December 1914. As families across Europe gather to celebrate Christmas, a generation of young men find themselves far away from their loved ones in the trenches of the Western Front. There they face a world seemingly devoid of any peace or goodwill. But on Christmas Eve 1914, as the men of the Warwickshire Regiment shelter in their trenches, something astonishing happens. Across no-man's land they hear music. The German soldiers are singing Christmas carols; the same carols their families are listening to, hundreds of miles away in Birmingham, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon. Leaving their trenches, carrying only their courage and their humanity, they go to meet their enemies; not to fight, but talk, to exchange gifts, to celebrate Christmas. And the next day, together, they play an unforgettable game of football.